Linux Definitions

Alone, adj.:
        In bad company.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Ambidextrous, adj.:
        Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Ambiguity:
        Telling the truth when you don't mean to.

Ambition, n:
        An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while
        living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
                -- Ambrose Bierce

Amoebit:
        Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time.

Andrea's Admonition:
        Never bestow profanity upon a driver who has wronged you.
        If you think his window is closed and he can't hear you,
        it isn't and he can.

Androphobia:
        Fear of men.

Anoint, v.:
        To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently
        slippery.
                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Anthony's Law of Force:
        Don't force it; get a larger hammer.

Anthony's Law of the Workshop:
        Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible
        corner of the workshop.

Corollary:
        On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike
        your toes.